marbles logic HELP PLSS

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What is the logic of marbles in medium practice section…how it can be (n-1)C(k-1)??..pls help…thanks

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There are many duplicates questions related to question please see this post .

medium level problem - Marbles SIGSEGV error - general - CodeChef Discuss.

Hope this will help.

Thanks .

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Just two days back even i was wondering the same… when i found this

and please go through Wikipedia. It contains detailed explanation.
It’ll surely help…!!! :slight_smile:

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Reali thanks…this qstion was disturbing me for two days…

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You can use the popular Beggar’s method (is usually taught in High Schools).

Distribution of n-k coins to k beggars.
For distribution of r identical coins among n beggars is c(n+r-1,r-1)
Applying the formula you get required the formula

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what is wrong with this code?
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/30679073

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Why is the return value for nCk a double?

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sorry about that. But its not working with long long int also
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/30681172

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https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/30681652
It’s an integer overflow.

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do i need to change my logic or a minor change in this code would work?

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I mean there are 2 ways.
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/30683459
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/30683586

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Got it. Thanks a lot. :innocent:

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when we want to select remaining n-k coins from infinite coins then (n-r+1)Cr would be used. In this formula n would be (infinity-k) and r would be (n-k). PLEASE help where am i wrong